Hi Everyone – Well you all (well almost all) said at the end of this year’s ’Mac’ that it was “the best yet”. Well you’ve now put your efforts behind proving that!

The ‘score’ to date has just – thanks to the contribution from Russ for his article in LRO – reached a staggering £120,000 !!!!! That really is a tremendous outcome which makes a major donation from you all to help Macmillan to help others. Thank you, thank you so much.

You were helped by 21 teams who for one reason and another couldn’t start but donated their entry fee and in a major way by the 20 teams who have managed to raise over £2,000 – well over in some cases. That, however, hopefully still isn’t the final figure; 10 teams are still below the basic pledge of £600 – if they all get to the finish line that represents another £1,700 and then there is that unknown world of ‘raised offline’ which appears on the Justgiving pages – if all those statements (dreams) were fulfilled that could represent somewhere in the region of another £4 to £5k. So – are you going to lift the total up to £125,000?! – check those pockets and pledges and let me know! You have been such a great crowd – I can’t thank you enough both personally and for Macmillan –